Good day,
Some programming languages, such as C++, allow function overloading. Is it possible to mimic it when creating S4 methods?
An example from an undergraduate text book is:
int largerInt(int x, int y);
char largerChar(char first, char second);
You can write the previous function prototypes simply as
int larger(int x, int y);
char larger(char first, char second);
Conversely, it does not seen to be possible to use different formal argument names for a S4 generic, unless I don't know about some obscure trick to do it.
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Dario Strbenac
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia